Hemorrhoids (varicose veins of the rectum, accompanied by inflammation) - an extremely painful disease that affects older people, leading a sedentary lifestyle, suffering from constipation, and quite often pregnant women. For the conservative treatment of the disease, local remedies are used - candles and ointments from hemorrhoids, which help reduce inflammation, relieve itching, pain and other unpleasant symptoms.
What is better from a hemorrhoids - a candle or ointment?
The choice of a therapeutic agent directly depends on the desired therapeutic effect, and in addition - on the type of hemorrhoids. So, with external hemorrhoids , ointment is more convenient for application, while for internal hemorrhoids it is more convenient to use medicines in candles. Also, in prolonged therapy, the suppositories are more convenient and effective, but ointments from hemorrhoids have a more rapid effect.
Ointments for hemorrhoids
Among effective drugs, you can include:
- Heparin ointment. This product has an anti-inflammatory effect and promotes resorption of thrombi and bruises.
- Troxevasin. Ointment with decongestant and anti-inflammatory action.
- Relief. The drug is based on the liver of a shark, which has vasoconstrictive and wound healing effect.
- Proctosan. Combined ointment with analgesic, anti-inflammatory and antipruritic action.
- Bezornil. Ointment with antimicrobial, decongestant, hemostatic and local astringent action.
- Vishnevsky ointment. It is not a protivogemorroidalnym drug, but used by some patients, due to pronounced antiseptic and anti-inflammatory effect.
Candles from hemorrhoids
Such candles are of three types:
- Painkillers. Candles designed to eliminate pain and itching at any stage of the disease. They usually include anesthesin and novocaine. Such candles include Nyz, Anuzol, Anestezol, Olesesin.
- Haemostatic. Used in the case of bleeding complicated hemorrhoids. The composition of such drugs include adrenaline (because of this they are contraindicated in hypertension), or drugs that increase blood clotting, for example, Beriplast, Longostan.
- Anti-inflammatory. Usually made on the basis of vegetable or animal components: candles with propolis, sea buckthorn oil, Relief, Proctosedil, Posterizan .
The use of suppositories and ointments from hemorrhoids is often combined, taking into account their therapeutic effect.